Welcome to Urban Travel Blog - the independent guide to City Breaks and Urban Adventure. I'm Duncan Rhodes, a travel journalist who has written for Conde Nast, CNN, The Guardian and many more, and I set up this blog in 2009 to share my love of exploring cities around the world. I knew I couldn't do it alone, and that's why I've engaged with a knowledgeable team of bloggers to deliver 75+ City Guides with all the info you need for an amazing weekend break in everywhere from Amsterdam to Yerevan; plus tips on the hippest districts, alternative sights, best nightlife and other urban adventures. Forget the beach and mountains, real travel happens in the concrete jungles... where culture and creativity collide. Read more about us and our philosophy, or browse our home page (you're on it!) or our list of destinations to get started. And if, like us, you love exploring new cities, then be sure to subscribe for all the latest stories.

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Alleys dedicated to street art, alligator tacos, gravity-defying bank vaults and pork-themed tours are a few of the weird and wonderful things you can see, eat and do in Toronto. Sasha Arms reports from Canada.

Hop in an East German Trabant to the Communist zone of Nowa Huta, invite yourself to a local's house for dinner or hang out with the hipsters at Forum Przestrzenie. Duncan Rhodes shares his top secrets for Krakow.

Secret meadows, penny arcades, vintage shopping and every species of British bird - stuffed for perpetuity - are amongst Brighton's lesser-known treasures. Our tips for a Bohemian break on the South Coast...

Feast on perhaps the world's best Asian fusion cuisine, revel in the city's multitude of outdoor art, swing by its speakeasy bars and discover its hidden beaches. Our Secret Seven tips for exploring Sydney.

Our local expert shares her hip things to do in the Hungarian capital, from shopping at a farmer's market to exploring the city's subterranean cave system...

LATEST ADVENTURES

At Urban Travel Blog we don't just publish our signature Long Weekend city guides. Check out our special reports on cool trends, experiences, nightlife and more, in sensational cities around the world...

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The Way of St. James is a pilgrimage that takes many routes, and many forms. The Editor takes the so-called Northern Route, across "Green Spain", in a form that involves as little actual walking as possible...

With e-readers and online markets threatening book shops with extinction around the world, Duncan Rhodes is intrigued to discover that Bucharest’s “librării” have evolved to become curators of all things cultural and cool…

Ljubljana's Libraries Under The Treetops are, contrary to societal norms, spacious, green, airy, oxygen infused affairs of relaxed bookish camaraderie. These ad hoc athenaeums spring up every summer in the Slovenia capital in an ever increasing number of leafy locations...

Originally semi-legal bars set up in abandoned courtyards, Budapest's kerts have been the city's favourite summer hang outs for well over a decade. But today these so called 'ruin pubs' are evolving into much more than beer gardens..

You don't need to take your clothes off to find out what really goes down in Amsterdam's infamous Red Light District. Duncan Rhodes gets all the juicy details on an insider tour run by former sex workers.

The birthplace of several world-famous beer brands, the Czech Republic, led by its capital, is also one of the best places for sampling home-made brews. Fiona Gaze hops onto a tour of the five best microbreweries in Prague.

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